By: Helen Durkin, Morning Consult
September 30, 2016
Sitting. Sitting while watching TV. Sitting while at the computer. Sitting while at the drive-through. These are all things Americans do — a lot.
But sitting is costly. Studies show that all this sitting costs governments,

By Alison Daye, CNN
Updated 2:29 PM ET, Mon September 26, 2016
(CNN)At a recent campaign event, Hillary Clinton climbed on a box to address a room packed with young people. But instead of facing the Democratic presidential nominee, the audience turned their backs on her en masse.

Rally shows link between diabetes, heart disease
Lauri Carr knows well the effects diabetes has on a person and their family.
Her brother, 51, died of diabetes-related complications during flu season in December, she said.
Her mother, who suffered from heart disease, died of a heart attack

June 20, 2016
The Florida Time-Union
By: Julio Fuentes
Even in a state with an economy as large as Florida’s, $3 trillion is no small chunk of change.
That is the cost of growing chronic disease rates in medical

Cost of Asthma on Society
From 2001 to 2011, the number of people with asthma grew by 28 percent. This constant rise in asthma means the cost of asthma has also grown. In 2002, the total cost of asthma in the United States was $53 billion. In 2007, the cost of asthma grew to $56 billion. This is

WNAX Radio
A new study suggests the State of Iowa could save tens-of-thousands of lives and billions of dollars if policy makers increased investment in efforts to reduce chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and arthritis. Candace DeMatteis is the policy

May 23, 2016
The Hill
By: Kenneth Thorpe
One of the nation's largest Medicare contractors just decided that it won't cover a proven new heart monitor that tracks signs of heart failure. That's terrible news for millions of Americans suffering from cardiac disease.
It

May 23, 2016
Nevada Appeal
Bernice Martin Mathews
Here are some hard, cold facts that should affect how all of us think about the current political season and the decisions we’ll make in November. If we do not do something now